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by a13xb 3y ago
It feels weird reading that someone in America “reinvents” the Australian concept of “chucking a sickie”.
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by a13xb 9y ago
HN is not a government or a political party, it's a privately run link aggregator.
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by a13xb 9y ago
> Not trying to be negative, I'm a fan of how much power AWS gives you. I am. I find AWS API incredibly baroque and has a lot of historic baggage. I suspect a lot of this complexity is a result of an accumulation of features made
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by a13xb 9y ago
I'll be a contrarian here and say that Objective-C is an ugly mess, and not even "because brackets". It's the language full of terrible hacks, historic baggage, and bolted-on features. Objective-C++ is basically the wors
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by a13xb 9y ago
Please note that I specifically singled out C++ here, not C. C is not C++ (not even technically a subset of C++). It is a very different and a much smaller language.
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by a13xb 9y ago
I am a former C++ programmer who has moved on to the other languages/technologies and no longer suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. This is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many dark corners, historic baggage, and complex interplay o
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by a13xb 9y ago
> This is a pretty bold claim - can you cite any examples of this? I don't know if you have read the original thread, but there are a few examples of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14356409 Also this: h
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by a13xb 10y ago
Ah, so the secret to launching without previous audience is to build up an audience prior to launch.
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by a13xb 10y ago
They are not at all equivalent. Shares are a lot more volatile, and your guess needs to be accurate within a very short term or you lose 100% of your investment.
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by a13xb 10y ago
Keep in mind that as an individual you cannot have a near-million dollar leverage at a relatively low rate to buy other investments.
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by a13xb 10y ago
Negative gearing is only one piece of the puzzle. There is also a 50% CGT discount if you hold an investment for more than a year. And yes, it applies to shares too, but it's not possible to get this amount of debt leverage for buying
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by a13xb 10y ago
People like to rag on Chinese investors, but I think the main reasons are insane tax breaks and limited supply.
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by a13xb 10y ago
I think the original intent of obscuring input password is to counter shoulder surfing.
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by a13xb 10y ago
I didn't know, that's great news.
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by a13xb 10y ago
I think the biggest annoyance by far is iTunes Connect. It's an odd beast. It's awkwardly separate from the rest of developer centre, and have this bizarre requirement that you use a separate Apple ID for each iTC organisation, so
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by a13xb 10y ago
Do you still need a beta review to deploy to external testing with Enterprise account?
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by a13xb 10y ago
I have recently switched to automatic provisioning profile management, only to have it completely broken in Xcode 7.3 (radar filed and confirmed). Still using Member Centre for now.
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by a13xb 11y ago
Right, when you leak handles to package objects externally, all bets are off.
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by a13xb 11y ago
> The problem is if a package registers some global name, and another copy of the package also registers the same global name, that could cause an error. This shouldn't cause an error, because packages can only register globals wi
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by a13xb 11y ago
They probably pivoted. ;)
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by a13xb 11y ago
C++11 was originally known as C++0x, so C++17 may yet become C++19.
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by a13xb 11y ago
I feel like it would be a frighteningly common bug. I remember one like this from 2011 [1]. Install/packaging/utility scripts usually do not get as much attention and testing as the application code itself. [1] https://
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by a13xb 12y ago
Thanks for very detailed feedback! There is certainly some room for improvement. > You don't see a live picture but you can "check in" as you put it by tapping on "record video now" in the app and it will immedi
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by a13xb 12y ago
Developer here. We are glad you like it. We'd also like to hear about rough edges, if possible.
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by a13xb 12y ago
Disclaimer first: I'm one of the developers. Yes, you can see the video from your phone. We don't do continuous live streaming due to long-life battery-centric design. You can, however, capture on-demand videos up to 30s. Main use